A lot of Kotaku members think VGChartz is bogus

[Rubang B]

SlorgNet said:
It's not just forum postings, I've noticed that Kotaku -- like 1Up and many, many other gaming blogs -- are still Not Quite Ready for Prime Time as media sites. Sometimes they may have interesting news, but all too many editors, writers and contributors have no sense of game history, or concentrate in a narrow field or genre, or just don't have enough grounding in the history of film, TV, painting, theater, literature to say intelligent things about videogames. Games aren't toys anymore, they are a full-fledged art-form, as complicated as TV and movies.

I just watched some editors from 1UP doing an interview with the composer for FF12, and it was painfully obvious they had no clue what questions to ask. Here's one of the most creative people in the industry, and they could only mumble "What's your inspiration" and "Who are you working with these days". Game journalism really needs to catch up to where the industry is.

QFT!

Thank you.  That comment was a breath of fresh air.  99% of anybody writing about games is a whiny asshat who thinks Halo is the greatest thing to happen to gaming.  They only see games as entertainment and not as art.  Every once in a while they'll sneak a shout out to Katamari or Beyond Good and Evil to try to look hip, but it doesn't stop them from frothing at the mouth every time the next big shooter comes out.  They're trying to turn video games into the huge fucking mistakes that Hollywood and MTV have become.